Free Cowork Wednesday is open to entrepreneurs\, freelancers
and students every Wednesday in January. Get inspired at 1 Million Cups D
allas at 9am and then stay for the coworking\, community and mentorship ar
ound your startup or idea. The details:

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Coworking hours for Free C
owork Wednesday are from 9am-5pm. We highly encourage you to attend the 1
Million Cups program at 9am to take advantage of this offer.

Last year over 1100 Dallas IT professionals atten
ded Dallas’ largest IT & tech conference\, InnoTech Dallas. On Thursday\,
April 16\, LaunchDFW is putting 6 lucky start ups in front of Dallas’s te
ch buyers for only $100. Cost is inclusive of space\, table\, electricity\
, carpet and more. If you sell to IT buyers\, are available on April 16 a
nd want to exhibit at InnoTech please contact me right away. Check out www.innotechdallas
.com for details on the event. This opportunity to meet face t
o face and networking with buyers is limited and will go fast.

Join us in celebrating Women’s History Month and Internation
al Women’s Day 2015 co-hosted by LatinaXchange and The Grove\, Dallas.

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Our final event celebrating Women’s History Month and International W
omen’s Day 2015 is a Women’s Social Entrepreneur Panel moderated by Suzann
e Smith\, Founder & Managing Director\, Social Impact Architects. Our exc
iting panel of women Social Entrepreneurs will share key highlights about
their journey into social entrepreneurship including success\, challenges\
, failure\, scalability\, and sustaining their For Good\, For Profit model
s.

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PANELISTS:

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• Mayra Garza-Herrera\, Co-Founder an
d CEO – Number 7 Coffee

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• Lisa Walter\, Founder – Banner Th
eory

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• Ami Doshi\, Director\, Global Outreach – Milaap

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Women’s Social Entrepreneur Panel is part of The Grove’s\, March Soci
al Mission activities focusing on one of our nine Social Call to Action pi
llars that make up our foundation as a coworking space for social mission
and social enterprise. Our March activities celebrate women\, plus affirm
the “Rights for Women and Children and their Roles as Leaders”.

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This event is part of The Grove’s\, March Socia
l Mission celebrating Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day.
We’re hosting several activities including free coworking space for wome
n every Friday in March\, panels led by some of Dallas’ leading female ent
repreneurs\, as well as movies and documentaries focusing on these issues.

Join us at The WERX in McKinney for a presentation by Busine
ss law & IP/Tradmark law mentors\, Tod Mongan and James Creedon\, who will
cover the things startups need to consider in the first year\, including
intellectual property\, business structure\, employee agreements\, and con
cerns such as why you shouldn’t trade equity for services.

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This pr
esentation will be approximately 1 hour long including time for Q&A follow
ed by networking.

We’re starting a new tech hangout every other Tue
sday night at Eastside\, opposite weeks of LittleDOCC. What is it exactly?
Hanging out\, shooting the breeze\, whatever you want to get out of it. N
o presentations\, no scheduled talks – just high fives and geeky chat abou
t whatever you want. Let’s just rally anyone local interested in tech and
have a good time.

1 Million Cups (1MC) is a simple way to engage entrepreneurs
in communities around the world. Each week\, program offers two local ent
repreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience
of mentors\, advisors\, and entrepreneurs.

Each week\, the 1MC program offers two local entrepreneurs a
n opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors\,
advisors\, and entrepreneurs. Presenters prepare a 6 minute educational p
resentation and engage in 20 minutes of feedback and questioning after the
y present.

As Managing Partner of Trailblazer Capital\, Joel leverages
unique insights gained from his experience in banking\, investing and oper
ating early-stage companies to make and manage venture investments. He pre
viously worked with Cisco through the acquisition of Metreos Corp where Jo
el was CEO and Founder.

Andrea practices Business Law with a focus on Intellectual P
roperty and Art Law. Andrea is licensed to practice law in the States of T
exas and Florida\, as well as being admitted to the U.S. Federal Court in
the Northern District of Texas.

Four years ago\, Baxter Box\, never would have im
agined his life would be surrounded by fashion – with a background in Fina
nce and Technology\, the Dallas native is now utilizing these skills as th
e CEO of rewardStyle\, a company he started with his (now) wife Amber Venz
Box!

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Over the last three years\, Baxter has fueled the
arrival of a new influence on the retail industry: content creators. By p
roviding the technical tools and education necessary to empower a global a
rmy of 9\,000 hand-picked\, premium content creators – he is now making a
tangible impact on global e-commerce sales. In 2014\, rewardStyle bloggers
and traditional magazine properties drove more than $280 million in retai
l sales and 205 million unique product impressions\, with over 36 million
unique consumers influenced.

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In partnership with Sta
rtUp Grind and Google Entrepreneur\, Baxter personally invites you to
an intimate Q&A and we would love if you can join!

Jeff is co-leader of the Technology and Media Practice Group
for CBRE in Dallas. Jeff’s insight into the start-up and entrepreneur com
munity and his focus on mid-cap corporate clients makes him very respected
and trusted among real estate advisors.

David is currently the Manager of Editorial Content for Mark
etingSherpa\, a MECLABS company. During 25-plus years of freelance writing
David has engaged in journalism\, corporate content/communications\, and
published fiction.

Want to make taxes more enjoyable? Come to The DEC on April
2nd to work with Intuit experts on helping prepare your personal and busin
ess taxes\, and enjoy bites and eats with some of your closest friends. An
immediate reward for your hard work.

FLG events are a fun casual opportunity to talk t
o other entrepreneurs who have both succeeded and failed. Each event featu
res three speakers who give a quick presentation of their worst business f
ailure and how that failure helped to shape them. The presentations are fo
llowed by five minutes of questions & answers. We believe that by destigma
tizing failure that not only can we encourage entrepreneurs to grow and le
arn and embrace their failures\, but that we can very tangibly help people
avoid depression (and worse) that often accompanies business failure.

Christopher has nearly ten years of experience in non-profit
programs management\, education\, and communication strategy. He presentl
y serves as Director of Publications and Marketing for the Hildebrand Proj
ect\, an innovative\, cultural start-up non-profit\, which has increased i
ts revenue and staff over fourfold since he joined. He is involved in all
aspects of running the Hildebrand Project\, with an emphasis on strategic
vision\, development\, and ensuring high quality execution of programs. An
active writer both personally and professionally\, he has worked and publ
ished in a variety of fields and media. He is involved in various capaciti
es with a number of Dallas’ most successful and iconic non-profits.

Code Collective meets at nōd
on Saturdays at 10AM. Great for new web/app developers and anyone who wan
ts to get more exposed to coding! Tweet @TexasCode and let us know what you want to learn at our next mee
tup (UX\, Prototyping\, Front End Dev or Back End Dev). If we don’t have a
guest speaker\, we typically do Show & Tell + Q&A and learn about what ot
her people are working on and where they need help.

If you’re pretty comfor
table using HTML for marking up your content and CSS for styling it\, you’
re ready to take the next step! The best way to become a front-end develop
er is practice\, practice\, practice. Let’s get some more practice in by d
iving deeper into HTML5 and CSS3 and doing some more cut up.

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HTML5
offers a number of new ways of marking up content more explicitly and add
itional features that allow even a simple webpage to behave more like a de
sktop application. CSS3 has more powerful selectors\, new properties that
can remove the need for tricks we used to do with images\, and even intera
ctive functionality and animations. The best part is that if you already u
nderstand HTML and CSS\, using the new stuff is no more difficult than lea
rning some new keywords and techniques!

What to bring: Bring a laptop but let me know
if you don’t have access to one and I should be able to find a loaner for
you. Also you might want to bring a flash drive or create an account on dr
opbox so you can bring your files home. If you want to take notes on paper
\, bring a notepad. That should be it!

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Please note our refund p
olicy: Your payment of $60 guarantees your seat in the course. If some
thing changes after registration and you cannot attend the course\, your s
eat is yours to sell or give to someone else – just please let us know who
! As a rule we don’t offer refunds\, but please let us know if you have ex
tenuating circumstances.

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Directions and parking for Dealer.com:
The address is\, 13737 Noel Road\, 3rd floor Dallas\, TX 75240\, Dall
as\, TX. You call or text Maegan at [masked] if you have any issues findin
g it.\nParking: There are a few visitor parking spaces on the
south side of the building (entrance off of Noel). There is also visitor
parking in the parking garage on the north side of the building. The entra
nces to the parking garage are on Southern Blvd and Barton Dr.

Talking Tech\, Startups\, and the Digital Lifesty
le for an hour. We’re a diverse group that appreciates technology and how
it can be used to make life easier (or at least more interesting). Our mem
bers come from a variety of backgrounds\, so don’t be intimidated if you’r
e not a techie! All we ask is that you respect the format of the meetup –
only one conversation at a time\, don’t try to talk over the moderators\,
and if you have something to sell (that includes membership in any project
or idea you have) please save it for after the meetup and only if the oth
er person asks about it) – we don’t want this to turn into a pitch contest
.

Mike is president of Speakeasy – a content marketing\, socia
l media and digital strategy agency. He was the founder of Pegasus News an
d has served in senior leadership roles at American Lawyer Media and D Mag
azine.

He advises and counsels entrepreneurs\, startups\, establish
ed businesses\, and investors with an emphasis on formation\, capital rais
es\, M&A\, general business transactions\, and real estate. Aaron was part
of the inagural DEC Ambassador class.

Plea
se join us at the SMU Social Innovation Forum on Tuesday\, April 7 from 2:
00-4:30pm at Owen Fine Arts Center Room 2130- O’Donnell Hall. Be a part
of expanding the conversation around social innovation\, social impact\, a
nd social enterprise with SMU students\, faculty and staff.

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This is a great opportunity to connect SMU students with the great w
ork you and your teams are doing in the community. The details of the even
t are below so that you can reach out to your networks and invite them to
this FREE event at SMU.

Jason has experience in all aspects of IP law including the
litigation of intellectual property cases\, licensing prep or non-infringe
ment\, and patent and trademark filing and acquisition. He regularly couns
els clients on issues of IP asset analysis\, trade secret protection\, and
more.

Recommende
r systems are used to predict the best products to offer to customers.
These systems have become extremely popular in virtually eve
rysingle industry\, helping customers find products they’ll like. Most
people are familiar with the idea\, but nearly everyone is exposed to sev
eral forms of personalized offers and recommendations each day (Google sea
rch ads being among the biggest source).

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Building recommendation s
ystems is part science\, part art\, and many have become extremely sophisticated. Such a system mig
ht seem daunting for those uninitiated\, but it’s actually fairly straight
forward to get started if you’re using the right tools.

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Texas is
a home for 70 active breweries. In this hands-on workshop\, we
’ll show you how to work with beer data to develop a recommender. You’ll l
eave understanding how to turn data into user-based and item-based recomme
ndations to build value for your company.

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What you’ll do (
with our help!):

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Understand the Taxonomy of data-d
riven business models used by startup-firms

\nThe Addison TreeHouse serves entrepreneurs in North Dallas\, providing
the benefits of a vibrant coworking space and the resources of Addison’s E
conomic Development Departmnent.\n

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Instructor: Srav
an Ankaraju

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Sravan Ankaraju is the Founder and Director of Education at Divergen
ce Academy. Previously\, he was Strategy and Innovation Director at Micros
oft\, leading Support Organization’s Transformation to the SMAC (Social Mo
bile Analytics and the Cloud) world. His experience is in moving large tea
ms from reactive to predictive and pre-emptive support through embracing o
f risk based assessment and machine learning models. He started his career
as a developer and developing large-scale transactional systems applying
various tree-based algorithms. So he is a tech geek at heart\, but his rea
l passion is for education and making a difference through hands-on learni
ng methods. His background is in Math and Computer Science.

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Sravan
is a passionate teacher and speaker and has always had a passion for shar
ing the things he has learned in the most creative ways he can. Ask him ab
out Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) and he will tell you similarities
between the SIT methods – Subtraction\, Division\, Multiplication\, Task U
nification and Attribute Dependency – and Feature Engineering. He is a men
tor to many aspiring computer students. At Divergence Academy\, he gets to
combine his three favorite things\, Data Science\, Machine Learning and t
eaching. When he is not working in Dallas Fort worth area with students yo
u can find him blogging about helping organizations get rid of innovation
inertia at getoffthedrawingboard.com

Bob has over 20 years experience operating software and tech
nology businesses in high growth and turnaround situations. He has strateg
ic and operational experience and has a deep sales and marketing backgroun
d.

Hubert is a doctor and is a the CEO and Co-founder of Health
Wildcatters. Health Wildcatters is an accelerator and works in conjunctio
n with Tech Wildcatters. Hubert loves anything that has to do with Healthc
are Startups.

REVTECH seed fund and venture accelerator will host the 3rd
Annual “Tech Trends in Retail” event April 9th from 1:30PM to 5:00PM in th
e Pegasus Grand Ballroom at the Magnolia Hotel in downtown Dallas.\n
The purpose of Tech Trends is to showcase venture-backed technology compan
ies that are gaining traction in the marketplace and to explore collaborat
ive opportunities with retailers. The event is part of REVTECH’s overall g
oal to make Dallas a hub of retail and hospitality technology innovation.<
br />\nThis year’s event will showcase six venture-backed retail technolog
y companies and will also feature a panel of retail executives discussing
technological challenges and solutions for human resource departments.

Sponsored by CoAdvantage
a> and Dallas Metropolita
n Small Business Development Center (SBDC)\, FundingPost’s Dallas Inve
stor Roundtable will feature panels of local and out-of-town investors tha
t will focus on pitching to early-stage investors\, and what it really tak
es to get them to write you a check! The event will cover what investors c
onsider when looking at an investment\, the best and worst things an entre
preneur can do to get their attention during a pitch\, and\, of course\, t
he best ways to reach these and other Investors. There will be plenty of t
ime for networking with investor panelists during the breaks and networkin
g party.\nThe first 20 entrepreneur attendees to sign up will also g
et the option to pitch their business idea in 60 seconds or less in front
of the investor panel and receive feedback as a group from the panel.

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Along with the pitch competition\, there is an educational and networ
king component to the event. All attendees will be gaining an understandin
g of what investors are looking for in the Dallas market and what our entr
epreneurs are building. All attendees will be able to market themselves (i
ncluding their products and/or services) throughout the event through netw
orking with one another.

John D. Carmack is an American game programmer and the co-fo
under of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id video game
s Commander Keen\, Wolfenstein 3D\, Doom\, Quake\, Rage and their sequels.
Carmack is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics\, such as his fa
mous Carmack’s Reverse algorithm for shadow volumes\, and is also a rocket
ry enthusiast and the founder and lead engineer of Armadillo Aerospace. In
August 2013\, Carmack took the position of CTO of Oculus VR.

Hal has over 20 years’ experience in launching and rebuildin
g businesses\, business operations\, development and investment in the fie
lds of personal care\, technology\, new & traditional media\, business ser
vices\, and distribution companies.

John bring 8 years of experience in real estate\, private eq
uity\, startups\, and marketing/creative strategy. John runs RealTech\, an
event to bridge startups and real estate\, he runs DXZ\, a creative consu
lting firm that helps clients create divergent strategies that generate ex
treme value\, and Realfolio\, a “Linkedin for buildings” platform that con
nects developers to real estate professionals. He also was co-founder of P
ride Pharmacy\, an HIV-focused mail-order pharmacy that grew to $12M in sa
les in 3 years\, and was Director of Acquisitions for Provident Capital Ve
ntures\, and an associate for Moran & Company\, a real estate private equi
ty firm in Chicago

Michael Sitarzewski is co-founder and CEO of Epic Playground
\, Inc. He is a veteran entrepreneur with a specific focus on Web-based so
ftware and services. Sitarzewski considers helping people understand and l
everage technology his life’s work.

Magnus is VP of Cyber Group. He has 20+ years of security e
xperience from McAfee\, PGP and IDology\, where he built a world-class SAA
S and Cloud Security Services teams and was he was behind the IT infrastru
cture\, security and application development. He also worked at Dell on c
loud security\, where he was awarded the Dell Innovation Award for Securit
y for his work with the Dell Data Protection | Cloud Edition. He is also a
n investor.

Public speaking isn’t just for big rooms with a podium and a
microphone. Sometimes it’s just you and maybe 5\, 10 or even 20 people. T
hey might be your clients\, prospects\, stakeholders or your project team.
Any time you address a group\, you need to get your message across and kn
ow you’ll be understood. Prep and practice are always important but when y
ou’re speaking “close-up” there are other considerations and opportunities
you don’t have in a conference hall. Join us for this interactive session
where we’ll talk about…

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• Preparation with long or short-notice\n• Presentation delivery and room dynamic\n• What to consider w
hen speaking to executives\n• Keeping the conversation alive\n
• Fun\, short exercises to drive the points home

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All of this is de
signed to make sure you own the room the next time you have to stand-up. Y
our SpeakerFor a long time now\, Adam Polansky has been closing the gap be
tween ideas and reality for companies like Travelocity\, Dr Pepper\, Radio
City Entertainment\, Starwood Hotels and American Express. He’s an active
leader in the UX Community through organizations like the UXPA\, The Info
rmation Architecture Institute\, The IA Summit and Big (D)esign Events.

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A decided and dedicated storyteller\, lecturer and author\, he speak
s regularly at conferences\, schools and workshops. His published work inc
ludes articles for the Journal of the American Society of Information Scie
nce & Technology\, Boxes and Arrows\, the Society of Technical Communicati
on and the book User Experience Success Stories – How Organizations Improv
e by Making Easier-To-Use Software and Websites (Gower Publishing 2006)

Brian is a successful entrepreneur and executive with 20 yea
rs of leadership experience in clean technology\, software as a service\,
and other tech based markets and business models. He is a strategic thinke
r and understands market dynamics. His expertise is start-up and exti stra
tegies\, strategic marketing\, product launch\, and supply chain developme
nt\, corporate strategic planning\, and organizational frameworks.

Corey is the Controller for SignaPay. They process electroni
c payments and also invest in startup companies. He focuses on managing th
e Finance and Accounting functions along with M&A and Business Development
. He has a Masters in Accounting/Finance and Networks/Communications.

Mike is the CEO and Co-Founder of Idea Harvest\, LLC. They a
re an organization that utilizes a network of product design\, marketing\,
and manufacturing delivery experts to bring new and innovative products t
o life.

Agenda\n1) What is Node.js for APIs?<
br />\n2) The Node API ecosystem\n3) The open source LoopBack framew
ork\n4) Working with data models and relationships\n5) Connect
ing to various datasources\n6) Authentication and authorization\n7) Deploying\, profiling\, and scaling

Jordan Kasper – Instructor\nDeveloper Evange
list\nAs a Developer Evangelist for StrongLoop Jordan focuses h
is time and energy on sharing and teaching the joys of JavaScript\, Node.j
s\, and StrongLoop’s API lifecycle software. He has been developing applic
ations since 1993 starting with BASIC and C. His experience prior to Stron
gLoop includes numerous startups\, enterprise companies\, and world class
universities. Jordan has presented on JavaScript and Node.js at usergroups
\, barcamps\, hackathons\, and conferences around the world.

John has 30 years of experience with growth oriented compani
es and raising debt and equity capital and assisting entrepreneurs in buyi
ng and selling businesses. He has special emphasis on the private sale of
securities and other forms of capital formation for early stage and middle
market companies.

The Hackster Hardware Weekend is a celebration of
makers\, open source hardware and the Hackster community across America.
From Seattle to NYC and everything in between\, we are hitting the road dr
iving an original DeLorean DMC 12 to run the coolest Hackathon & Meetup se
ries of the year\, with loads of hardware kits\, amazing speakers\, softwa
re freebies and great people. Best yet\, you also get to hack our Time Mac
hine.

This April\, as part of The Grove Dallas’ Sustainability Mon
th\, we invite you to join Grove community members for an afternoon of sto
ries and ideas on how we can not only sustain the lives of future generati
ons\, but also make our city and the planet a better place.

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Come f
or the inspiration\, stay for the food\, drinks\, and passionate people!
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4:00 – 4:30 Meet & Greet

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4:30 – 5:30 Program: Five Awesome
5 minute Talks with Q&A

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Green Buildings & Healthy Workplaces –\nAmy King\, Founder of Nested Strategies\, a creative branding studio f
ocused on building purposeful brands grounded in the triple bottom line. S
he started Nested Strategies with the belief that the sustainability movem
ent has critical branding and messaging ch
allenges. Prior to Nested Strategies\, Amy spearheaded the incubation of 8
0 USGBC chapters for the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

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Urba
n Agriculture –\nAaron de Leon\, Founder of The Urban Farmist\, Rebe
l\, Artist\, Musician\, Writer. Most importantly\, a Dad. His kids inspire
him daily to press beyond what is considered normal to find ways to live
the best life we possibly can.

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Nature Doesn’t Have a Design Proble
m – We Do!\nGary Gene Olp\, FAIA\, NCARB\, LEED AP BD +C\nGary
is an Environmental Architect and Founder of GGO Architects\, a general p
ractice established in 1987 to effect a fundamental change in the applicat
ion of the craft of Architecture based on an understanding of environmenta
l stewardship.

Matt is a veteran who now competes in IronMan. He brings a k
een ability to implement company strategy for growth. He operated a financ
ial services company before selling to a public company. They performed ex
tensive market analysis to determine the best possible market segments. He
has 20 years experience in data manipulation\, transfers and transaction
processing for the mortgage\, real estate\, and oil & gas industries. He a
lso started or partnered in an auto trading service\, a bakery\, and a min
eral services company.

For the March Meetup\, we’re all about the Drupal 8. New Add
ition to the Extravaganza!

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Brandon Williams from the Austin Drupal
Users Group will be joining us to offer his thoughts on what has changed
for contrib developers. In particular\, he will focus on the API changes i
n Drupal 8 – what has changed and what has not. Brandon will briefly touch
upon the new components in Drupal 8 when necessary to understand the cont
rib space.

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Now there is even more reason to join us for this impor
tant Meetup! With Drupal 8 in beta and approaching Release Candidate (RC)
status\, it’s time to start learning what’s new & improved\, and when you
can realistically start thinking about building a real site with it.

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where Drupal 8 is headed\nconversations about Drupal 8’s future w
ith Acquia Lift developers and product managers (by LevelTen’s VP Brent Bi
ce)\nprobable release timeframe\nwhat’s new\, different\, bett
er\, worse in Drupal 8\nall the new things devs get to learn to succ
essfully work with Drupal 8\nstep-by-step building out a real site w
ith the current Drupal 8 Beta\nWe will be back at the Addison TreeHo
use – thanks for their continuing generosity. Look for a sign for Dovie’s
restaurant on the west side of Midway and turn in there\, drive to the bac
k left and look for building 14681. Enter and go up the stairs. We’ll be i
n the Treehouse Room.The North Texas Drupal Users Group is organized by Fi
reRoad Digital.6:30 Doors open\, Networking\n6:45 Review the latest
& greatest news and updates from the Drupal world.\n7:00 Drupal 8 Ex
travaganza\n8:30 Networking

Adam is a corporate and securities attorney. He specializes
in corporate financing\, M&A\, and business contracts. Adam dedicates a po
rtion of his practice to assisting entrepreneurs in matters involving form
ation of the business\, corporate governance\, compliance and early stage
financing.

Mike is an operations consultant who has over twenty years o
f experience in bringing successful new electronics products to market. He
is available to assist entrepreneurs with production/supply chain plannin
g for their product ideas.

Vivek is the president of Adaptive Loop which is a consultin
g firm that provides IT Strategy and Management Consulting Services to tec
h startups and large corporations. Vivek led Fortune 500 companies across
multiple industries including Insurance\, Financial Services\, Manufacturi
ng\, Transportation\, Consumer Products and Pharmaceuticals. He created in
novative solutions\, eliminated IT bureaucracy and built high-performing t
eams. He delivered significant customer-focused business results validated
by independent industry surveys.

Brian is VP of Global Services Marketing at Tait Communicati
ons. He has 20+ years of experience successfully marketing and selling com
plex\, high-tech solutions to enterprise clients around the world and acro
ss a wide range of industries and technologies. He excels in B2B Marketing
& Sales\, specifically\, taking new products to market. He attributes his
success to his organizational ability to build follower-ship\, drive a se
nse of urgency and manage by facts and data – connecting investment and ac
tivities directly to ROI performance.

Max is an accomplished serial entrepreneur and business stra
tegist. His background is in product manufacturing with a successful exit
under his belt in 2013. Throughout the last couple of years he has venture
d and invested in different industries which include but is not limited to
product technology\, e-commerce\, as well as software development. He cur
rently sits on several boards and is apart of an angel investment group wi
th a focus on renewable resource technology.

Bradley is the founder of Velocis and LaunchDFW. Velocis is
a software development agency and technology incubator. LaunchDFW is a med
ia company that supports and promotes tech entrepreneurship through news\,
media and events. His areas of expertise are startups\, web design and de
velopment\, marketing\, search engine optimization and social media optimi
zation.

Brice is the owner and president of Reap Marketing. He start
ed his career at IBM as the Product Manager for a web behavior analytics t
ool. He left IBM to put some of his learning\, ideas and theories to test
on the client side. Directing the internal marketing department for Bluegr
een Corp\, a large\, publicly traded\, real estate company\, he had the op
portunity to work with a plethora of marketing agencies. He founded Reap M
arketing because he felt there were a few missing pieces in the agency wor
ld.

Chuck is the Executive Director of the NTAN. They are a memb
er supported and led non-profit focused on deals from the DFW Metroplex. I
nvestors share insight and wisdom with their peers and then make individua
l investment decisions.

The DEC opens its doors the last Wednesday of every month to
educate the community on the activities\, programs\, and membership oppor
tunities available at our downtown location and our sister location\, the
Addison TreeHouse. The tour is open to anyone and will start at 5p

She has broad experience in leading strategy and operations
with Fortune 1000 companies with a goal to accelerate revenue generation w
hile improving performance. Moving easily between strategic planning and e
xecution\, she energizes and inspires others with a vision of what is poss
ible. Sheryl thrives on tackling challenges of difficult\, complicated pro
blems.

Want to learn how to improve your product through
UX design? Mark your calendars for May 2nd and sign up for Velocis’s UX Kickoff primer workshop presented by our UX guru An
drew Zusman. New to Dallas\, Andrew has spent the past few years teaching
user experience design at Netcraft Academy in Tel-Aviv\, Israel. He has w
orked with numerous startups as well as larger corporations\, and is the U
X mentor at Coolhouse Labs\, a startup accelerator in Northern Michigan.
He has also lectured on universal design across Europe and the lecture lan
ded him a semi-finalist spot in the Design for Experience Awards in 2014.
Andrew will bring his experience and enthusiasm to UX Kickoff!

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The 4 hour primer explores the philosophy\, ideas\, and principle
s behind user experience design and how to apply UX methodologies. Anyone
involved in web design including developers\, editors\, marketers\, projec
t managers\, and startups are welcome. As a bonus\, each startup will rece
ive a 1-hour one-on-one consultation with the Velocis team to discuss a range of options for strategy on how to deliver high
quality experiences to succeed in the marketplace. Lunch will be provided
. Sign up for early bird tickets and claim your seat!

DevOps is a response to the interdependence of software deve
lopment and IT Operations. Now with growth of Data Science we have newer i
nterdependency between not just IT Operations but also Data Scientists and
Software Engineering teams. This three-way relationship causes multiple h
andoff challenges – and is creating a need for better ways to respond to S
cience & Operations – call it ScienceOps.

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The goal of this worksho
p is to explore the various tools and frameworks that help expedite the de
velopment\, deployment and scaling of advanced analytical models to predic
t and score.

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A predictive model is any analytical routines designe
d to solve a specific business problem. Models involve regression\, classi
fication or ranking problems and can be created using a variety of scienti
fic and BI reporting tools.

The Addison TreeHou
se serves entrepreneurs in North Dallas\, providing the benefits of a vibr
ant coworking space and the resources of Addison’s Economic Development De
partmnent.

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Instructor: Sravan Ankaraju

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Sravan Ankaraju is
the Founder and Director of Education at Divergence Academy. Previously\,
he was Strategy and Innovation Director at Microsoft\, leading Support Org
anization’s Transformation to the SMAC (Social Mobile Analytics and the Cl
oud) world. His experience is in moving large teams from reactive to predi
ctive and pre-emptive support through embracing of risk based assessment a
nd machine learning models. He started his career as a developer and devel
oping large-scale transactional systems applying various tree-based algori
thms. So he is a tech geek at heart\, but his real passion is for educatio
n and making a difference through hands-on learning methods. His backgroun
d is in Math and Computer Science.

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Sravan is a passionate teacher
and speaker and has always had a passion for sharing the things he has lea
rned in the most creative ways he can. Ask him about Systematic Inventive
Thinking (SIT) and he will tell you similarities between the SIT methods –
Subtraction\, Division\, Multiplication\, Task Unification and Attribute
Dependency – and Feature Engineering. He is a mentor to many aspiring comp
uter students. At Divergence Academy\, he gets to combine his three favori
te things\, Data Science\, Machine Learning and teaching. When he is not w
orking in Dallas Fort worth area with students you can find him blogging a
bout helping organizations get rid of innovation inertia at getoffthedrawi
ngboard.com

Gain exposure and win prizes at the leading information and
communications technology (ICT) conference! The Startups Competition at TI
A 2015: Network of the Future seeks young companies on the ICT cutting edg
e. Presented by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and spon
sored by Motorola Solutions and Panasonic.

You can tap into the wealth of social web data to discover w
ho is making connections with whom\, what they’re talking about\, and wher
e they’re located. The goal of this workshop is to see the ‘Healthcare Twi
tter Analysis’ in action to understand ways to improve the quality of medi
cal care with Data Science techniques.

Sravan Ankaraju is the Founder and Direct
or of Education at Divergence Academy. Previously\, he was Strategy and In
novation Director at Microsoft\, leading Support Organization’s Transforma
tion to the SMAC (Social Mobile Analytics and the Cloud) world. His experi
ence is in moving large teams from reactive to predictive and pre-emptive
support through embracing of risk based assessment and machine learning mo
dels. He started his career as a developer and developing large-scale tran
sactional systems applying various tree-based algorithms. So he is a tech
geek at heart\, but his real passion is for education and making a differe
nce through hands-on learning methods. His background is in Math and Compu
ter Science.

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Sravan is a passionate teacher and speaker and has al
ways had a passion for sharing the things he has learned in the most creat
ive ways he can. Ask him about Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) and he
will tell you similarities between the SIT methods – Subtraction\, Divisio
n\, Multiplication\, Task Unification and Attribute Dependency – and Featu
re Engineering. He is a mentor to many aspiring computer students. At Dive
rgence Academy\, he gets to combine his three favorite things\, Data Scien
ce\, Machine Learning and teaching. When he is not working in Dallas Fort
worth area with students you can find him blogging about helping organizat
ions get rid of innovation inertia at getoffthedrawingboard.com